Abraham's Crack Wattle Flat, Victoria, Australia
By LinctheSkinc on 12-Feb-06. Waypoint GCTDXR

Love it when a hint makes perfect sensewhen u get there! I headed to the area for an orienteering event...no GPS's of course but nevertheless geocaching is still good training! TFTC and the fun.

Took me a bit to find it as my coordinates were slightly off but the hint really helped, great hiding spot!

After getting a DNF on a nearby puzzle, I needed a win for the last cache of the dayWas in perfect condition with a log book from 06 which was niceMay the fourth be with you

Parked my car up beside the track, before walking the short distance downtown the crack!! Again another pretty cool forest landscape. This is the youngest monsters favourite style of cache so he will be disappointed he wasnt with me this afternoon!! TFTC!!

Found ) thank you for the cache still in good condition!

We always get a bit excited when we find one of these. Impressive spot TFTC

Day 2 of getting sidetracked from completing the Ballarat GeoTour. I enjoyed my walk around the Koala reserve so much yesterday that today i thought i would return to do some more walking. The plan was to walk/cache for 4 hours and then take 2 hours to return. At 12 p.m., I decided i wanted to keep going rather than retrace my steps, so i organised a pick up at the other end. This was one of the many caches l found today.Some spectacular bushland and another golden oldie to my list.

Heading into Creswick and came in this way for a couple of finds. No issues here and the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks for the cache...all good.

We've found it! Thanks!

A slightly challenging place to hide a cache but found it quickly while wondering how long I’d be able to stay there as my feet kept slipping. An enjoyable experience non the less TFTC LinctheSkinc

out and about and stopped hereparked near and had a nice walk to the cachequick findTFTC

After spending the night camping with Mr Dromaniax at their block in Moonambel we headed to Avoca this morning for breakfast before heading back to Moonambel to pack up camp.
With camp all packed up we planned out route home with some key caches that we wanted to grab on the way home.
Mr Dromaniax had this one on his radar for his Jasmer grid. So another detour was required. after a bit of hunting we found our target after we used a bit of logic and expanded our search area.
Thank you LinctheSkinc for this old cache.
Sorry for the late log

Mr Sims_family and Mr Dromaniax had headed up to Moonambel to take the Dromaniax caravan to their property. It was decided that they would camp overnight at the property and do a little caching around the area.

So the caravan had been delivered at the tent and stretchers set up. As the Avoca pub was closed today it was decided we would head up to St Arnaud to check out dinner options there.

It was now time to make our way back towards home bases.

As neither of us had any pressing engagements we cached our way back.

Another specifically targeted cache as we need the hide month. We love finding old caches and we took quite a while to find this cache before realising that we may be on the wrong level.

Love finding this style of cache container.

The cache is in excellent condition, although the ziplock holding the log book has seen better days. The log was perfectly dry.

Thank you for placing this Traditional cache and maintaining it for so long LinctheSkinc. An Favourite point from us for the area and the cache.

Found it on a cold but fine day. TFTC
Cache in good condition

We have headed to Ballarat to attend doctor appointments and in our spare time head out to areas that we have not cached in to find the many geocaches that have popped up in the forest areas. Most of the roads were acceptable, some geocachers were on walking/bike riding section which hubby hiked on and I drove the car and would pick him up along the way. All geocaches were found and were in good condition. SL TFTC

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One of the caches I like to aim for is those that are placed before 2010 so this was a must for me. Pleased to be able to turn it into a smiley. Thanks for placing the cache and maintaining it for so long.

As soon as GT37 saw that this was an old cache, this was a must do. Nice quick find. Thanks for placing this and maintaining it for so long.

A camping road trip with Papi4506, Geoturtle37 and RoamingHowie, exploring Ballarat and surrounds, with focus on the new Geotour, the Goldfields Track and various solved puzzles.
Day Two...
Nice to find this lovely old cache still in play.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, sKinc

Found by The Empire with Snap Happy
The plan today was a tour of Ballan, Mt. Buninyong, Ballarat and Creswick via Adventure Labs and other assorted types of geocaches. Our last stretch of the day involved caching through the Creswick trails until we reached too many campers to continue! I'm going to post photos of the first few pages in this log sheet to my Instagram soon. This is a great way to maintain the important history of this old geocache. Check out @empiregeocaching if you're keen to read it. Thanks for the cache LinctheSkinc.
- M

Wow... 2 December! When did that happen? After finishing off the Christmas caches it was back to complete the rail trail which was partly completed last visit and a few other caches before heading home.

Grabbed this cache on the way out of camp as it was one I needed for my Ausmer grid. A cool old cache still in play!

Thanks sKinc for the cache.

A quick detour on the way to the blue lake..
A nice stop and better to see this than Roaming Howie’s plumbers crack as he bends down for the cache. Haha!
Thanks for the cache

*Found on the 14 Nov 2020 @ 6:29 pm.*
*Cache find # 11102.*

Finally we are able to get out and about so we headed for Mt.Beckworth, Clunes and Creswick.
We had finished at Mount Beckworth, we had also cached out the town of Clunes so now it was on to Creswick and then home.
We started on the Goldfields track series but found a few other in-between before heading to the main road and home.

**Thanks to sKinc for placing this cache.**

**14/11/2020 18:30:00
Find #4528
Traditional Find #2822**

I headed out with Steve on our first caching run since before the second lockdown. Ballarat, Mount Beckworth, Clunes and Creswick were our targets for today. We were now caching our way in the direction of home and made a few finds before we hit the highway and headed for home.

**Thank-you to sKinc for placing this geocache**

TFTC. We were caching along the Goldfields Track. Along the way we came in close vicinity to Humbug Hill and Abraham’s crack.Cannot bypass a cache so close to our track. Took a bit for the GPS to settle, but we got there.

While in the area for the youngest team members normal. Monday activity, we managed to grab a couple of smiles Thanks for bringing us here, TFTC and the fun

Out and about after lockdown no.2. In creswick for gold detecting and caching.
We love being out bush
TFTC

Just checking, all good.

May 31, 2020 1:03 PM #2945
Managed to convince Mrs Perpetuallylost that she needs to get out of the house after this Covid-19 restriction time, so after a quick paddle on the Lake for a T5 cache, it was time for some fresh air and leg stretching out here in the Creswick State Forest.
I had chosen this cache to find as it was my nearest, oldest unfound cache to home. Our respective smartphones gps's had us heading off on slightly different directions at first, but it wasn't long before we had a similar GZ to search and it was Mrs Perpetuallylost who spotted this one from a small distance away. Great hide and location LinctheSkinc, after all these years the cache and logbook are still in great condition and we enjoyed our search here today.
Tftc

Very pretty area

What a find! Amazing cache thank you

Good hiding spot cool location tftc

Came back up to Ballarat to tackle a few more caches and to also have a paddle on the lake.
It was very windy at the lake this morning so I pulled the pin on launching the yak and headed up to Creswick to check out this area after coming up this way for an event a few weeks ago.
While having a yummy lunch at the Farmers Arms Hotel I worked out where I was heading to next in an area that I haven’t been to before.
Noticed this set of caches on the map and decided it looks a good place for a drive.
Not sure about the tracks around here after the recent rain but I was able to get the Geowagon close to this one and set off on foot.
The GPS led me to an area that you could tell has had a fair bit of mining done in the past and it was an interesting place to walk around.
Good coords soon lead me to a great sized cache that there should be more of out in the bush and I soon added my name to the log.

Thanks LinctheSkinc TFTC.

Out for the day for a mothers day cache! Bit of a chilly one but well rugged up. Having such a wonderful day! TFTC!!

A very interesting area. Found with aqau. Thanks for bring us here.

After an overnight stay in Portland, Na'wal and I had a handful of hides to pick up on the way home, after a few detours...... Once again the weather was perfect and the caching was fun. Plenty of laughs and no DNF's !! Thanks to all of the CO's for placing these caches for us to find.

We had visited this area before, but we ran out of time to finish off our wish list. With some time to spare today, we returned to cross some more hides off our list. After a bit of four wheeling, we set off on foot for this cache. It took a bit, but we eventually made the find. It is now loved again. TFTC sKinc

With another bright, beautiful day for us to go exploring, DAB and I couldn't help ourselves find a few more caches for the weekend. We had the 4WD packed to keep our energy levels up.

The 4WD drive got plenty dusty coming along the tracks in through this part of Creswick. After making a uturn to find a park here, we set out on foot to find this cache that we were surprised by how much unloved it had on it. With a jumpy GPSr and a few places to hide a cache, we found ourselves scratching our head at where it could be. After reading a hint a few times and then coming to a spot, it all made sense and the cache was found.

**Thanks LinctheSkinc for hiding this cache for us to find and enjoy**

Day touring around Creswick and enjoying the cooler weather for bush caches. Cache in good condition. Thanks for the cache placement all good at GZ.

Find #1688 for me. Found with jtnsilo at 11:25 am. I needed to use up some accumulated leave at work so decided to oblige today and find some more caches around Creswick. This was the first one we visited. After parking the car about 200m away we walked the short distance to the cache and soon found the treasure. Wow, the bag of swaps was very impressive! Pity my 5yo wasn't with me! The zip-lock bags were as good as new suggesting that the cache has been very well maintained so thanks for that. I was also quite surprised at how many entries there were in the log-book for a cache in the bush and jtnsilo and I were very happy to add our names to the long list. Thanks for bringing us here today LinctheSkinc and thanks for the cache!

Enjoyed the challenge and the spot, memeries of wonder dog, Conehead3

Tanks Skinc nice spot

Thanks for an interesting hide and providing us with our 1600th find. Yeah (Que whistles and ballons) TFTC

15:09
A Friday of fun, out and about around Creswick, in an effort to replace the green boxes on our geo-map with smiley tokens. We were amazed at the number of old remnant mine shafts and the spread of quartz around the bush.

Our thanks to sKinc for placing this cache.
17765.

We parked, we walked, we stopped, we found. Thanks for highlighting this place with your cache. Tftc

Out and about with Sean.75 and kenare clearing out some rough track caches. This was a doozy tftc

After having a look at the washed out bridge at Slatey Creek camp ground, I came here with kenare and jenno3. The hint helped. Cigc. Tftc

The track across from WATERSHED required a modest fwd decent into a dry creek. However, the ascent out of said creek required some intelligent positioning on track and significant risk to get up the incline. We took the chicken route and walked. As well we did as the track was blocked by two fallen trees. Anyway, a little bushbashing had the ammo case in hand. Beware the stinging caterpillars. Grabbed a tussock an wow, what was that? See photo
TFTC. TNLN.

Hint was spot on.

Can't seem to get photo of caterpillar in the log. Sorry

Found on a lovely Saturday afternoon, although the Mozzies were out in full force! When we found it, we were surprised that apart from Snap Happy's Stamp no one has physically signed this log since January so we soon had it signed and away again. Left nothing, took nothing. TFTC

**Found whilst House Sitting in Clunes**... Beautiful little town...

Out and about letting my GPS be my guide... Caught up with wozzle68 as I cleared up some local caches...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment sKinc...

A nice quick find with good co-ord's... Cache condition - Fine...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped log...

**#8591**

Looked in the wrong spot at first but soon worked out where I should have been. Nice to find a larger container here.
Sorry don't quite get the relationship to the cache name.
TFTC sKinc

Started out on the wrong side of the Crack but found no worries

TFTC. Out for the holidays with the family collecting smilies. Quick navigation to this one and the awesome find. Had to hold the kids back from the ravine!!

Thanks for the find - always fun to do without a compass! TNLN

i really like this one this hole area is gr8 and you can see it has been mined a lot in the 1800 s i have to give this a fav point tftc

Staying a few days in Creswick we decided to see how muddy these tracks were after last nights rain.

Thankfully nothing too bad.

Such alot of history in this region. Just loving our visit. [^]

TFTC sKinc

Tftc. Great spot and we love these types of cache. Youngest geo kid was amazed this cache was as old as her.

Found after a short walk to the gz, the cache was quickly located and logged, thanks sKinc for the cache and bringing us here.

A nice quick find, in another old mining area. The abundance of riches gained here over the years is mind boggling. Thanks for showing us this and for the cache.

Brilliant spot brilliant hide thanks

What an interesting day. Started off looking out for some stolen goods and then progressed to grabbing a few caches (grabbing as in finding them, not as in stealing them).

Away from the townships I decided to try my luck around Creswick. In the old days they would have been happy to strike gold.

Now I am an easy going fella, and I too would have been happy to strike gold. Gold or a geocache....I'm not too fussy about things like that.

So a geocache it was.

Eureka!! Found it.

TFTC

A very adventurous cache!

Nice bush walk. TFTC.

A good find on a bushwalk. TFTC!

Just joined the Geocaching community so this is our first adventure. Decided to have a go at night while going for a bush drive. We found the cache! Nicely hidden & in good condition. Signed the log. Great to see a cache has survived for so many years. Nice cache... clever, interesting & made to last. Will always remember as our first. TNLN. Thanks for the effort LinctheSkinc

This was our last cache for the day. We went for the short bush bash and geohubby was on to the cache, good hide.

Great place for a walk, geodog loved it!
Thanks for the cache

Headed out caching with sulkybear and our 2 geokids (age 3 & 5). Along for the ride was grandad and my nephews (age 6 & . This was master 6's favourite for the day because once I found cache and had to retrieve I slipped in the wet and muddy conditions. Lots of laughs! Thanked heaps

Found on a quick trip out to Creswick to try and get some photography done, unfortunately the winter weather ended the photography before it had started but luckily there was a few unfound caches on my trails, grabbed this one easily after the small trek from the car

TNLN

TFTC

Nice easy find. Tftc.

Another great find

Out for a day of gold fields discovery and caching in Creswick. And it's a bg crack too, careful not too walk too far while looking at the gps.
Thanks to LinctheSkinc for this cache

Found with Chris and Lorraine The Tritonz. TFTC

Found on the 11/2/14 with Wozzle68 TFTC
Have taken Brady the Bear Trackable will relocate somewhere in our home area .

Dropping off trackable Jonah's Bar or Brady the Bear into one of my favourite finds in Creswick. Travel Dragon now heading to Western Australian town of Kalgoorlie where it can hide in the gold mines like smaug did in the lonely mountain.

Nice walk in the bush Linc to your fav spot. CI 888 key ring CO 1956 penny.

Found in company with A Herd Of Camels A good hide and we love being out in the bush even in the wet TN.Ln. TFTC Garnets

Took a little while to find the best route to the cache from the roadway, but we eventually got there. Did this one with The Garnets. Signed log and left a penny. TFTC.

We Decided to head out Creswick way and get as many caches as we could along the way, despite the on and off deluge of rain.. soaked through after first cache of day, even our Ninja Pug was challenged by this days weather.

This was one of forty odd caches we grabbed today. Forests and miserable weather does not make for a happy GPS, had us chasing our tails in circles.... Ninja Pug thought it was fun.
We eventually found GZ ... thank goodness for the hint

thanks to the CO for this cache

TNLNSL

Hey une belle boîte ici dis donc, c'est ma 2ème ammo box que je trouve depuis que je suis en Australie
Merci LinctheSkinc

Another quick find whilst out letting the geomutts have a run. #28 for the August challenge. TNLN. TFTC.

Geofriend found it. Nice cache

Caching with Tomstache and his buddy today, we took the long way around and the buddy made the find. The hint was spot on. Great hiding spot, great container and great swaps inside too. Thanks for bringing us here. Not one for night time but perfect for today.

Love caches in areas like this. TFTC.

Nice area, great hide!

Geokids found with 3potscreamer

Find No. 380. Found with FUF009 at 11.55am

After a quick trip into Ballarat it was then off to Creswick to do some cache hunting with our dog Penny on board.
A small drive through the bush then a lovely walk to the hide - Penny just loved this area roaming around, and had to investige the hide with us.

Took Australia shape keyring - Left large elephant and red power ranger man. TFTC

Find #687 @1155

Found With Tyred n Cranky
After a quick trip into Ballarat it was off to Creswick to hunt down a few caches.

After a small drive through the bush and a nice walk to GZ we were all pleased to find a nice sized cache for this area.

Took Pixar Car Sally
Left Fantastic 4 Figure

TFTC

In the area to watch an Ultra-long orienteering event that started near-by. Could not resist the short walk to this cache.
TFTC

Found on my second attempt. Nice hide, although cache was 20m east of posted coordinates according to my GPS.

This was good fun and an interesting location. TFTC

Great cache in the bush. TFTC!

Good to find a nice cache in the bush. TFTC.

Jeez that gold sluicing makes a mess! Good clue! TFTC>

Some nasty little caterpillar bit me!
This was one of many of the caches we have found on our journey north as we follow in the footsteps of our ancestors as they made their way from Geelong to Yackandanda.
We will be walking the goldfields tracks and trails on a journey from Geelong to Yackandanda that we estimate will take us 7 years to complete.

Our journey continues...

TFTC

This entry was edited by Riddell on Saturday, 17 November 2012 at 08:56:28 UTC.

1430. Walked from St Georges' Lake initially via the Goldfields Track (www.goldfieldstrack.com.au) with thunder over head to start and again as we got back to the car but only a smattering of rain. Spring flowers everywhere. An area in which we have orienteered on foot and mtn bike and always enjoy.

Cache soon found by A+ who retrieved it. However a warning to people who are sensitive to bites and stings. At the cache A+ suddenly had swellings on hands and arms. The cache site was well populated with Cup moth caterpillars (see one of the three on container in the photo). These colourful creatures were the culprits www.digbig.com/5bgrfj.

They are highly invasive and detrimental to eucalypt forest. Fortunately, the damage they cause is not permanent. Recently driving from Kingston towards Werona their progress across the Wombat Forest skyline was very evident by the brown-grey Cup moth area in the north followed by medium green healthy eucalypts in the centre then the dark green of the pines in the southern end of the skyline.

Thanks for bringing us back to this interesting area. btw if walking or biking this Ballarat-Daylesford section of the Goldfields Track, you could check out the caches along the route at www.digbig.com/5bgrfk

Ideal spot, geokids enjoyed this one
TFTC

Nearly forgot to log this one

Thanks for the nice walk I have picked up the travel bug from here and will send it on its way
Cubsgrasshopper